Type “education” and “commodity” into a search engine and you will find a plethora of fascinating articles and futuristic blogging entries. Some of my more progressive friends in the higher education community believe the concept and value of university degrees will dramatically change in the next 25 years due largely to the fact that so [...]
My past two entries have focused on whether or not to use Facebook and on navigating social networks with your students. In my initial post about Facebook (To Facebook or not to Facebook) I mentioned what I think of as the “Grandmother test:” if you wouldn’t want your Grandmother (or other family member) to see [...]
Rubrics have been in use for quite some time now in the K-12 education community, but this best practice tool has been a bit slow to catch on in higher ed. A wider acceptance of the tenants of authentic assessment as encouraged by educators and innovators such as Grant Wiggins and Jonathan Mueller, however, has [...]
Just as education focused on pedagogy and youth learning in response to Jean Piaget and his followers, a shift to andragogy and adult learning occurred in response to Malcolm Knowles’ suggestion that adults were not simply big Little People. A google search of adult learners provides numerous sites noting the proposed characteristics of those adult [...]